La Grande Conserve dresses the Tourist Office shop

L’aménagement avec du mobilier sur mesure en bois apporte une touche locale supplémentaire. A.M.

La plateforme de réemploi Lodévoise a réalisé les meubles et les étagères en bois.

The Lodève Tourism/Museum Commission at the end of last week allowed its elected members from Lodévois Larzac to visit the exhibition Tisser l’imaginaire at the museum with its director Ivonne Papin-Drastyk, before going to the Tourist Office. The opportunity to discover local partnerships, in particular the one with the reuse platform La Grande Conserve and its manager, the architect Sophie Costeau. She is the one who made all the wooden furniture in the office shop, which contains various local objects and products.

Shelves made from window frames

“It's good for elected officials to go out into the field and see up close how the reality of services is realized rather than showing slideshows in a meeting room,” explains Fadelha Benammar-Koly, vice-president of the Communauté de communes du Lodévois & Larzac.We are here to serve professionals, to provide information, to be a showcase for the region and to promote them.”
And when it was time to think about redeveloping the new store last year, its manager Delphine Fauvernier and the director Julie Solignac called on La Grande Conserve, located at the entrance to the city.

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Delphine Fauvernier and Sophie Costeau A.M.

“They explained their needs to me, and we started to do an initial tidy-up, with shelves made from window frames that we collect from construction sites in Lodève, says Sophie Costeau. A few months later, they contacted us again to do the next step, wooden presentations for more delicate objects with partitioned shelves based on window frames again”. Before making a console-type table made with a reel that was used as a winder for fiber optic wires. “It was an opportunity to make custom-made, unique furniture, adapted to the products that we want to highlight.”

From the pontoon of the lake in Octon to the premises of the Espace Jeunes in Lodève

La Grande Conserve is well established in Lodévois. The platform, which currently employs between 6 and 8 people with two employees in integration, recovers, reconditions and stores different types of materials that are put up for sale to the public on its 4000m² site, on the Montpellier road, below the recycling center.

"We welcome a lot of people and we meet demand, explains Sophie Costeau. We operate throughout the Hérault department, providing deconstruction and collection services in companies”.
In 2024, she participated, with the joint management union of Salagou/Mourèze and the Department in the dismantling of the pontoon of the lake at Octon. “It was in very poor condition but I saw that there was the Douglas wooden decking and the entire framework that could be reused. We sawed, recalibrated the damaged beams to give them a second life”. Which will be done in Lodève, in the construction of a room for the Youth Space in the backyard of Lutèéva. “The City contacted us and we are going to exploit this wood deposit to build it, with the architect Vincent Courteaux from Celles.” By relying on the structure of the existing container which will be completely dismantled. “When you work on the assembly line of a project, it allows you to push it to its maximum for a realization in this case that will include between 60 and 80% reuse.”

Like these pieces of wood used to present upcycled bags, made by Sandrine Dole of Alinfini and the Abeille Verte sewing workshop from used tarpaulins from the museum, with door handles. A dressing that contributes to the charm of the boutique open to the public all year round.